Jagjivan ram: ’s wife

Jagjivan Ram’s wife, Indrani Ram, wrote in her memoirs that while studying in Calcutta from 1928 to 1932, he had been actively organizing Ravidas Sabhas and working to unite different socially excluded groups around the figure of Ravidas. Jagjivan Ram was an Indian politician, government official, and longtime leading spokesman for the Dalits (formerly untouchables; officially called Scheduled Castes), a low-caste Hindu social class in India. He served in the Lok Sabha (lower chamber of the Indian parliament) for more than 40 years. Learn about the life and achievements of Babu Jagjivan Ram, a prominent leader of the Indian National Congress and a champion of social justice for the depressed classes. He played a key role in the freedom struggle, the Union Cabinet and the Congress party. Capt. Praveen Davar Babu Jagjivan Ram, whose 113th birth anniversary falls on April 5, was the Deputy Prime Minister from 1977 to 79 and the country’s longest serving union minister for three decades. Though Defence was the most high-profile portfolio he held twice, there were many other important ministries he headed with distinction in the cabinets of Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi and Morarji Desai. The great Dalit icon was also the Congress President when the party split in 1969 ...